Bassoon Audition Material (PD)

Performance Diploma

• All major, harmonic minor, and chromatic scales for the full range of the instrument.
• Three contrasting solo works that include a standard major concerto (e.g., Mozart, Weber, Hummel) that demonstrate the applicant’s strengths, musically and technically.
• Excerpts to be performed will be chosen from:
  • Beethoven, Symphony No. 4, fourth movement
  • Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, fourth movement
  • Berlioz, Symphony Fantastique, movements IV and V
  • Mozart, Marriage of Figaro
  • Mozart, Symphony No. 35, fourth movement
  • Mozart, Symphony No. 41, fourth movement
  • Ravel, Bolero
  • Ravel, Piano Concerto in G
  • Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade, Mvt. 2, solo and cadenzas
  • Shostakovich, Symphony No. 9, movements IV-V
  • Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra
  • Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, beginning to number 13
  • Stravinsky, Pulcinella, Var. IIa
  • Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4, second movement
  • Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5, movements I, II, III
  • Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, opening solos